How State Bans Increase Costs and Delay Abortion Care

The original abortion bans

Catholic hospitals have denied lifesaving care to pregnant patients since long before Dobbs—and their presence is expanding.

How state bans increase costs and delay abortion care

People in states that have banned abortion were more than twice as likely to receive them later in pregnancy, according to a new study by researchers at UC San Francisco.

Abortion Bans May Be Making Second-Trimester Abortions More Likely

The fraction of people who got an abortion in their second trimester more than doubled in states that enforced near-total abortion bans after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, new research has found. The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health on Thursday, found that the proportion of abortions that took place at or after 13 weeks of pregnancy jumped from 8% before a ban was enforced to 17% afterward. The average point …